(urth) This week in Google alerts

[James Wynn]

<andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 
> I can't trace it now, but I'm sure there is a Wolfe interview, which
> has been discussed here, which says that it was while he was already
> working on _Long Sun_ that he realised it had to be about Typhon and
> his family.

I remember that and have searched for it repeatedly without success. When I read it I don't think I had read the novel yet. But afterward when I began perceiving  Typhon and his clan everywhere among the characters the comment meant more to me.